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Peter Jones [+-]

Jazz singer and journalist

Peter Jones is a jazz singer and journalist based in London.
He read English at St Peter’s College, Oxford, and after a brief sojourn at the University of New Mexico he returned to England and began working as a pop music journalist. After a decade as a film and TV publicist, during which he was the researcher for the autobiography of Spitting Image founder Roger Law, he gained an MA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Westminster. Until 2015 he taught film and media at a variety of London colleges, and published a short book on black cinema (BFI Publishing), followed by a handbook for Media and Film students (Hodder Arnold).
For several years he played bass in a jazz sextet, before deciding to concentrate on singing. At around the time of his first album (‘One Way Ticket to Palookaville’ - 2013) he developed a serious interest in the work of Mark Murphy, which has continued ever since. He began working for London Jazz News, reviewing concerts and CDs, and conducting interviews, including one with Kurt Elling in 2015. His second album (‘Utopia’) was released in 2016.

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Although he never won a Grammy, Murphy was nominated five times, and in Downbeat magazine’s annual poll, he won Best Male Singer in both 1996 and 1997. At the same time Murphy-influenced younger singers – particularly Kurt Elling – were beginning to forge successful careers. Murphy himself relocated once again, this time to rural Pennsylvania.

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